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[Ohio, Clinton County] Reply of Joel P. Davis of Des Moines, Iowa,
AjLg. 28, 1892.
Dear SirJ-
Yours of August 25 is received, and I hasten to assure you that I shall cheerfully respond to your request and will furnish you in a few days as "concise a statem.ent of my knowledge of and connection with the Underground R.R. matter in Ohio, from 1836 to 1846 inclusive. Born in 1822 and having been the very youngest person then engaged to any extent in that work that I knew of in Ohio, ^ am out¬ living nearly all of my co-laborers in the anti-slavery cause. Joseph and Ruth Dougdale now of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, then
of Green Plain Clark County, Ohio. Joseph is now over 80 years of age, his wife', Ruth, over 90 all I can be sure of. Out of some fifty or more of them who are now living, there may be a few others, but nearly all of them I know are gone on and for several years T could gain no trace of any but the Dougdales. But scores of their descendants now live in Iowa, and generally are following in their ancestral footsteps. Please inform me how you got track of me . I have only memory to serve me in this work you ask of me, bat though friends of the slaveholder left but little undone to impress that fearful conflict, almost indelibly on the minds of active abolitionists I am,
Triily yours,
Joel P. Davis.

JIAIlM 1^^ fi BsArU .
[Ohio, Clinton County] Reply of Joel P. Davis of Des Moines, Iowa,
AjLg. 28, 1892.
Dear SirJ-
Yours of August 25 is received, and I hasten to assure you that I shall cheerfully respond to your request and will furnish you in a few days as "concise a statem.ent of my knowledge of and connection with the Underground R.R. matter in Ohio, from 1836 to 1846 inclusive. Born in 1822 and having been the very youngest person then engaged to any extent in that work that I knew of in Ohio, ^ am out¬ living nearly all of my co-laborers in the anti-slavery cause. Joseph and Ruth Dougdale now of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, then
of Green Plain Clark County, Ohio. Joseph is now over 80 years of age, his wife', Ruth, over 90 all I can be sure of. Out of some fifty or more of them who are now living, there may be a few others, but nearly all of them I know are gone on and for several years T could gain no trace of any but the Dougdales. But scores of their descendants now live in Iowa, and generally are following in their ancestral footsteps. Please inform me how you got track of me . I have only memory to serve me in this work you ask of me, bat though friends of the slaveholder left but little undone to impress that fearful conflict, almost indelibly on the minds of active abolitionists I am,
Triily yours,
Joel P. Davis.